Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has approved the voluntary retirement of 1996 batch IPS officer Sanjay Singh.
Singh’s application for voluntary retirement from service has been approved by the State government’s Home Department.
The notification issued by the Home Department said that Singh had applied for voluntary retirement from service on February 2 with effect from April 30.
The notification added that his request to relax the mandatory notice period of three months has been accepted.
Singh has been serving as Deputy Director General, Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) since January 2021.
He had also led the special investigation team, which took over the cruise drug case involving Aryan Khan from NCB Mumbai headed by Sameer Wankhede in November 2021. Khan was later given a clean chit in the case.
He has also worked in different capacities with the Odisha Police and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
Before joining the NCB, he headed the Drug Task Force (DTF) of the Odisha Police as Additional Director General (ADG). He also worked with CBI from 2008-2015 as Deputy Inspector General (DIG) and handled several high-profile cases.
